By any other name: consensus in the nomenclature of perioperative neurocognitive disorders

'Depression by any other name...'.

There is a popular conviction that psychological disturbance is invariably a reaction to environmental events. This approach is associated with total rejection of the so-called 'medical model'. However, allowance must be made for the fact that contemporary krnow-ledge of psychiatric illness is well behind what is now known about general medicine, and current ideas about psychiatric aetiology ma...

Cellulitis, by any other name.

“I know it when I see it . . . ,” as Justice Potter Stewart famously said of hard-core pornography. Would that this were the case with cellulitis. In principle, cellulitis is simply defined as an acute infection with inflammation of the skin involving the dermis and subcutaneous tissues. In practice, because of the overlapping signs and symptoms of skin infections, the terminology has become bu...

Brugada by any other name?

The article by Remme et al., and the editorial comment by Antzelevitch, fortuitously again forgot that the syndrome known worldwide as the Brugada syndrome had been described by Nava, Martini and Thiene more than 4 years before Brugada. There is autoptical evidence in the medical literature that this syndrome is related to some form of right heart disease (which does not mean typical right vent...

A Rose by Any Other Name: Practical Updates on Microbial Nomenclature for Clinical Microbiology.

An Entomopathogenic Nematode by Any Other Name

1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, 3 Department of Biology, and Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America, 4 Department of Microbiology and Mol...